Attendance: Johnice Wilkins, Sandra Mares, Barbara Yancy, Dee Jacobs, Bill Coppola, Emma Walters, Rick DeGraw, Sue Kater, Jan Binder, Herman Gonzales, Tim Keefe, David Gerkin, Ann Barrett, Anne Williams.

Procedural Issue:

Ground Rules:
The following ground rules were created during the meeting.

• Meetings will start on time.
• Meetings will end on time.
• Everybody must be respectful of other peoples' opinions.
• A topic must be "finished" before moving on.
• What is said remains in the room.
• Have fun.

CONCLUSION: The ground rules were approved.

Old Business

Budget Process Ad Hoc Committee

Fund 9 Budget Request for approval:
The Budget Process Ad Hoc Committee presented a more readable budget tracking form for Fund 9. The committee also prepared a proposed budget for Fund 9.

• Discussion included whether or not the information was presented clearly.
• The balance to date is $60.
• There is an 18,000 carry over
• The revenues budget estimate at this time is $2,500 (based on past history of dues collection).
• Expenditures are about the same as last year, which means expenses will be over estimated income and will be funded out of the carry over.

CONCLUSION: The Fund 9 form and budget was approved.

Grievance Committee
Legal Services:

• There is a $2,000 allowance in the budget for legal services. It is available for only the first meeting with a lawyer.
• The Grievance Committee is in the process of establishing the process for using these funds. The tentative process is: Paying MAT members must first bring their request to the Campus MAT President, then to the Grievance Committee. If the Grievance Committee criteria are met, request for funds will be brought to the MEC for approval.
• If the money set aside for legal services is not used during a given year, it will not accumulate.

CONCLUSION: The Grievance Committee will continue to work of getting the process established.

Membership Report

• The District Office has created a brochure which states the services offered by MAT. This brochure was designed to encourage people to pay their dues. Other colleges are encouraged to make use of these brochures. At the District Office MAT members are being given these brochures and spoken with individually. To obtain a copy contact Rick.
• The District Office is also encouraging the payment of dues through a raffle. Members who pay their dues will be entered in a raffle and become eligible to win a color T.V. (the T.V. was donated)
• Questions being asked by MAT employees are: "What will we get if we pay our dues?" Answers included: MAT would have more clout in negotiations if more people paid their dues. Availability of Professional Growth funds. Support of the Grievance Committee. Conference. Workshops.

  NO ACTION REQUIRED.

Meet & Confer committee:

Comprehensive salary approach (salary negotiation every 2 years):

• If the Governing Board likes the two-year contracts better it might be hard to revert to one-years.
• About 10 years ago 2-3 year contacts were negotiated.
• The legislature had agreed to a two-year funding cycle for the legislative budget.
• Negotiating salaries every two years would benefit the Governing Board since less time would be spent on planning. It would also benefit MAT in the same way.
• Negotiating salaries every two years would also benefit MAT if there were a downturn in the economy (although this would only help for one year).
• The following was asked: "Would the other employee groups have to follow suit?" The following comment ensued: Once faculty had a three-year contract, while PSA and MAT had one to two-year contracts. Since then (the early 90's) the Governing Board has given every policy group the same deal.
• It was said that the multiple-year contracts were tried because people were tired of fighting every year.

CONCLUSION: This item is not ready to be presented to the board yet. However, in a few weeks the information should be refined enough to bring to the campuses in order to open up discussion.

M&C/CPD Report

• Reassigned time for College/DSSC Presidents is being dropped.
• Two weeks of administrative leave every five years will be requested.
• COLA has been researched and will be presented.
  • Research shows that salaries in real dollars at MCCD have gone down over the past ten years.
  • Data is now being comparing between MCCD to similar data for City of Phoenix and other groups.
• MAT is requesting a one-year study on incentive-based compensation.
• With regard to educational advancement and certification other organizations researched do not provide increases in salary with advanced degree. Compensation for people with certificates will be requested (this item is not retro-active).
• MAT will be pushing for everybody to get either a step or a 2% base pay increase for those at the top of their grade.

NO ACTION REQUIRED.

Activity Committee
MAT New Members Reception Report:

• Six of the 28 new members attended.
• 7 MEC members attended
• Materials are available for new members who did not attend.
• PC had the largest contingency.
• Information was presented about Professional Growth and the Annual Conference.

NO ACTION REQUIRED.

Professional Growth Committee: Report

• A request was made for amount to set aside to fund the conference.
• After some discussion it was decided that $5,000 should be added to what was spent last year for a total of $25,000.
• The Professional Growth workshop will be held on October 26, 2000 from 2:00pm-4: 30pm in room 2-b of the RIO building.
  • Videotape will be available to those who could not attend.
  • Michael volunteered to do the refreshments.
  • Stipends are now $1,000.

CONCLUSION: Conference budget increased by $5,000.

Announcements:

• The following lecture was announced for those who are interested: "Solutions for the New World at Work" on November 8.

Submitted for approval 10-2-99 Minutes approved at the 10/24/00 meeting of the MAT Executive Council.
Posted 12/19/00.